North Carolina State Senator James
Forrester, the sponsor of the state's gay marriage ban, says the
amendment is needed to thwart a gay agenda, media watchdog group
RightWingWatch.org reported.
Forrester has tried over the past eight
years to get his constitutional amendment that would ban gay and
lesbian couples from marrying through the General Assembly. Last
week, lawmakers
decided to put the question up for a vote in May.
During a Tuesday appearance on
Concerned Women for America (CWA) radio, Forrester insisted the
amendment would keep an encroaching gay agenda at bay.
“In some states even though the
states have ratified having marriage between one man and one woman in
the constitution, activist judges have overruled that, overruled the
will of the people, that bothers me too, but if we don't have it in
the constitution there's a whole lot better chance for them
succeeding in what they're trying to do,” Forrester
said. “So I'm very encouraged that we're gonna have the
opportunity to vote on it, hopefully put it in our constitution, and
make it more difficult for the homosexual group to get their agenda
recognized as being normal and getting it into schools and things
like that. So I'm very, very happy this morning.” (The audio is
embedded in the right panel of this page.)
(Related: James
Forrester equates gay people with cesspool.)